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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

I have come to what some might consider a radical decision!
As you may know, I have so many blogs right now that it's sometimes hard to keep track of what's going on and where. So, I am bringing all my current blogs to a halt. I'm not deleting them. But, I am folding them as of today. In their place, I have set up a new blog titled Nick Redfern's Fortean World.
Yeah, I know: it's hardly the most original or imaginative title, but it is accurate and to the point! So, from now on, while all my existing blogs will remain archived, here's the address for the new blog, Nick Redfern's Fortean World.
As you'll see, the design and style has not been completed yet, and there's no content yet either. But, bear with me, and over the next few days you'll see it start to develop its life and character!

Monday, April 2, 2012

If you're in the area, I'll be speaking about "British Bigfoot" reports at the Cross Timbers Creature Conference in Oklahoma on April 14. Maybe I'll see you there! If you do want to attend, you can find more information right here.

Friday, March 9, 2012

Over at his Gralien Report site, Micah Hanks has an excellent new post on the one angle - more than any other - that many Cryptozoologists don't want to have to deal with when it comes to Bigfoot - the "high-strangeness" cases, such as those where the giant hairy thing seemingly vanishes in the blink of an eye, which is a staple part of many British Bigfoot reports.

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

It contains an extensive Q&A with me on my thoughts on what Bigfoot is (and isn't!), the paranormal/Fortean aspects of certain Bigfoot encounters, tales of the British Bigfoot, and much more that will probably not endear me (not that I am already! LOL) to the mainstream field of Cryptozoology!

As an example of the interview with me, here's a taster from it:

Lisa A. Shiel: "What is the biggest controversy in Bigfoot research?"

Nick Redfern: "In my personal opinion, without any doubt, it's why we haven't been able to catch Bigfoot or find a body or any hard evidence—which flies in the face, in my view, of any other animal that doesn't fall in the realm of cryptozoology. When it comes to bears, lions, and tigers, we may find them dead occasionally in the wild or we might find a bear occasionally hit by a truck, but the important thing is that even though it's just occasionally, it does happen. I think this is the biggest controversy with Bigfoot research. Bigfoot, even when it reportedly gets shot, never crumples to the ground and dies. If it unfortunately gets hit by a car, it always manages to escape. Photographic evidence is interesting but never conclusive. Hair samples are interesting but never conclusive. It's this overwhelming, almost eerie elusiveness with Bigfoot that to me is the most controversial aspect. The reason it's the most controversial aspect is because, by default, being so elusive to me implies there's something more—or paradoxically less—to Bigfoot than just being an unclassified animal that science hasn't found our doesn't recognize."

And if that has caught your attention, here's the publisher's blurb on the book:

Is Bigfoot real or a hoax?

For most people, this is the most controversial question surrounding Bigfoot. But to the folks who study Bigfoot—interviewing witnesses, collecting evidence, and analyzing the data—there's no question about Bigfoot's reality. Yet behind the closed doors of Bigfoot research, arguments boil over into feuds worthy of the Wild West.

Now, Lisa A. Shiel invites you to step through the door and learn about the controversies that both enliven and hinder the quest for this mysterious creature:

• What should we call Bigfoot?• Is Bigfoot paranormal, flesh and blood, or both?• What on earth is Bigfoot?• Should we shoot a Bigfoot in order to prove they exist?• How much do we really know about Bigfoot?• And much more!

Creature of Controversy exposes the feuds in a no-holds-barred look at the secret world of Bigfoot research, enhanced by interviews with other well-known Bigfoot researchers:

Thursday, December 29, 2011

If you have followed the work of researcher/writer Stan Gordon - and particularly so his excellent book, Silent Invasion, which addresses a wealth of truly high-strangeness in relation to Bigfoot - you will want to read this new piece on Stan's work, which provides some excellent insight.

Indeed, I recommend Stan's book to anyone and everyone interested in the British Bigfoot phenomenon.

Not because Stan's book focuses on Britain, but because Silent Invasion demonstrates (as do the actions of just about every British Bigfoot ever reported) that whatever the true nature of the world's hairy man-beasts, they are far more than mere flesh-and-blood apes that science and zoology have yet to classify.

BIGFOOT IN BRITAIN: MYTH OR REALITY?

Are creatures that broadly fit the description of the North American Bigfoot, the Yeti of the Himalayas, and the Yowie of Australia really roaming the woods, mountains and forests of Britain?

Are they physical animals? Do they have paranormal origins? Or can the reports be relegated to the realms of mistaken identity, folklore, fantasy and mythology?

Man-Beast U.K. is designed to (a) answer these questions and (b) provide you with the biggest online resource for data, news, reviews, testimony, investigations, and much more on the many and varied reports relating to Bigfoot in Britain.

Here at the Center for Fortean Zoology (www.cfz.org.uk), we are often in receipt of reports that fall into this particularly mystifying category; and with that in mind, anyone with information and/or comments on this highly controversial and emotive topic is invited to contact me at this blog.

WILDMAN!

Coming next year, 2012, from CFZ Press is a new book from me titled "Wildman," the first, full-length study of the phenomenon of Britain's Bigfoot. Keep watching this space for more news on the book!

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SEEKING THE BRITISH BIGFOOT

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MY NEW BOOK: THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE WOODS: A Transatlantic Hunt for Monsters and the Mysterious

Containing Masses of New Material on the British Man-Beast. For purchase details, check out the following link, or click on the book-cover image above: http://www.anomalistbooks.com/redfern2.html

In January 2003, an expedition to the wooded Bolam Lake in the north of England was undertaken by the Centre for Fortean Zoology , followi...

THE BRITISH BIGFOOT

This illustration of the British Bigfoot is the work of a skilled artist named Simon Wyatt. Check out his work at http://www.comicspace.com/simonwyatt/; http://simonwyatt.blogspot.com/; and http://community.imaginefx.com/fxpose/simon_wyatts_portfolio/default.aspx

About Me

I am the author of many books, including "A Covert Agenda;" "The FBI Files;" "Cosmic Crashes;" "Strange Secrets (with Andy Roberts);" "Three Men Seeking Monsters;" "Body Snatchers in the Desert;" "On the Trail of the Saucer Spies;" "Celebrity Secrets;" "Man-Monkey;" "Memoirs of a Monster Hunter;" "There's Something in the Woods;" "Science Fiction Secrets;" "Contactees;" "Monsters of Texas" (with Ken Gerhard); "Final Events;" "The NASA Conspiracies;" "Space Girl Dead on Spaghetti Junction;" "The Real Men in Black" and "Keep Out!"
Proudest achievement: knowing all the lyrics to every one of the songs recorded by The Macc Lads.
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